I Can't Lose You Again

Chapter 46: What you Lose, You Fight For

" What happened? Something's not making sense; I thought Kirishima and Iida were safe in the faculty building...?" Jiro rounded on her classmates with wide eyes, the fear that reflected in her violet eyes staring into the shame and discomfort that displayed on each of their expressions.

No one had the voice to answer her dying question, everyone except Todoroki as he slowly started, "I thought so too, but I found them with the villains when Ashido and I tried to get Bakugo back... and I watched them run away but..."

"Wait, they were there...?! How?!" Ashido exclaimed, sitting up straighter in the bed.

"It was Yamikumo...!" Sero blurted out before anyone else could reply, the attention moving to him with his voice cracking as he tried to explain, "I-It was him...! He-He just suddenly came into the room a-and took them right from under us...!"

"Of course it was him..." Todoroki hissed under his breath, fury tightening his fists as they shook at his hips.

"The heroes still have no idea what all his quirks are, right...? He's too powerful; he needs to be stopped and imprisoned." Sato stated the obvious, heavy agreement hanging in the air.

"It's not just Yamikumo, they all need to be imprisoned...! This is the second time they've threatened our class and tried to kidnap one of us." Todoroki, surprising every one of his classmates, suddenly exclaimed in a low volume with his past cold demeanor, his eyes narrowed to slits at the pure rage that seemed to cloud his judgment.

"Todoroki, you need to calm down. I can't say that I understand how you feel, but we're just as upset and distraughted. Uraraka and I barely did anything while you and Ashido tried to stop them as you went ahead, but there's nothing we can do now except wait for the pros to handle the situation. This is in their hands." Shoji attempted to place a soothing hand on the emotional teenager until his arm was batted away from the boy himself, his icy glare turning onto him next.

"Don't tell me to calm down...! This isn't over just yet." Todoroki spat furiously in retort, his gaze traveling to another student in the room with the others following his trail with curiosity until he called out, "Right, Uraraka?"

Everyone in the enclosed space waited patiently for her response, her brunette hair falling over to block her face from the looks of her classmates. Her hands caressed around those of Asui's, sighing to herself before she stood up from the stool and slipped her fingers from the other female's. Puffy eyes turned to stare at their wide facial expressions until they landed on the determination in Todoroki's nod.

"Todoroki-kun told me that Yaoyorozu-san had given a tracker to Bakugo-kun..." Uraraka hoarsely answered, swallowing the lump that seemed to be stuck in her throat while a few eyes strayed over to their classmate, Yaoyorozu with a hand placed over her lips in shock until the other was able to clear her throat, her brown gaze trained on Todoroki's lit expression while she spoke, "And we were going to ask her if she could make another receiver so we can go save them..."

"Uraraka..." Shoji shifted toward the female before her downcasted expression landed on him, flinching at the lack of joy she usually carried.

"It's as you said, Shoji-kun... We couldn't do anything... But this way... maybe I can do something..."

Even though her words sounded courageous, the tone that came out seemed like she had already given up; like things were hopeless.

"So what? You were just planning to ask Yao-momo to make you a receiver and storm off to go save those three by yourselves? What if she were to say no?" Jiro spat out as she narrowed her gaze on them, the pair glancing toward their angered friend.

"Jiro-san, please, that's not a necessary question..." Yaoyorozu tried to intervene, not wanting her classmates to fight one another.

"If she were to say no, then we would respect that." Todoroki answered simply while the short-haired brunette turned her dull brown eyes onto the floor in silence, the two-toned boy continuing, "Even though we don't know why the villains wanted them, one of the villains didn't hesitate to stab Kirishima in the gut while at Hosu City, Bakugo was almost taken by a Nomu. It's safe to say that whatever reason why they were kidnapped, killing them is probably not too far off their list."